Re: Fonts

[Simon Perreault <nomis80 nomis80 org>]

On July 22, 2003 19:24, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Has anyone noticed the fonts look a bit weird with Severn?
> The "sans" font looks skinnier than with RHL9 and when I turn on the
> bytecode interpreter, it gets even worse. The lowercase "g", for
> example, in gnome-terminal is really ugly compared to RHL9.

Are you sure the font file are exactly the same? It looks like the Severn 
version has some preliminary hinting for some letters.

If they are exactly the same, then it's freetype's fault. It may be trying to 
improvise some sort of hinting. The freetype people are developing ways 
around having a bytecode interpreter, which may or may not produce good 
results.

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Simon Perreault <nomis80 nomis80 org>
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